How has your culture shaped your views on education

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Writing: Narrative Essay

Global Theme: Education & Identity

Focus: For Essay #1, you will be writing an educational narrative.

Part I: First, chose a memorable experience in your education and describe it in detail. Then analyze the experience to see how it impacted your identity as a student. The experience you choose can be positive or negative, but be sure that it is significant to your life as a student. Focus on the analysis and explanation of how your experience shaped how you see yourself. Your goal is to help your readers gain a better understanding of your educational experience and how your education has shaped you thus far.

Part II: Additionally, we will draw from one of the course readings in this unit (W1) to make connections with the author's experience and your own: hence, you will choose an ESSAYfrom one that we have read to draw parallels and make distinct connections via details and direct quotes between yourself and the narrators. Choices from this unit include the following texts related to education:

• The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me by Sherman Alexie• Learning to Read and Write by Frederick Douglas• Learning to Read by Malcolm X Reading to Write by Steven King• Mother Tongue by Amy Tan• Only Daughter by Sandra Cisneros• Salvation by Langston Hughes

Your narrative will reveal the following answers:

How did this educational experience shape your identity- both personal and cultural? What did you learn about yourself? How did this experience give rise to your voice? or lack thereof? What did you discover about yourself and your relationship to learning and literacy? What parallels did you have between your experience(s) and those of the authors in our unit?

For Consideration: (+ Brainstorm)

1. What is the value of education?2. What are some experiences that shaped your view of education?3. What values did school instill in you?4. How has your culture shaped your views on education?5. How does your history with education shape how you view yourself as a student?6. Has school held you back or classified you in some way that you didn't think was valid?7. Were there experiences in school that were particularly helpful or harmful for your growth as a student? What made them so? 8. Did the system ever encourage you to pursue a sense of self-education? (i.e. as Malcolm X did?)9. Who were/ are your mentors in reading? In writing? In learning?10. Who were/ are you anti- heroes in learning or education? How have your views on literacy and learning evolved?11. Sources: Which of the readings do you connect with so far? Personally? Culturally? What parallels do you have with the authors or their experiences?

Writing Requirements:

• Format: Typed:o Proper Heading On the left (name/ course/ date/ Assignment)o Size 12' fonto Length: 3-4 pages (or 800-1000 words) = no less than 800 wordso Title Centered and Essay Double -Spaced

• Organization & Criteriao Introduction: includes? distinct Setting? background information, the importance of the topic? a distinct THESISo Body: includes? Specific details to inform the reader;? use of one reading sources that summarize the author's experience, and connects to your ownwith the use of "Direct Quotes" and distinct parallels? Use chronological order and time order wordso Conclusion: Turning point/ lesson(s) learnedo Throughout: theme/ character development/and Dominant Impression

• Narrative /Language Techniques:o Framingo Point of View: you can use first person "I"o A distinct Clear Voiceo A Dominant Impressiono Include "Dialogue"o Descriptive Language and vivid detailso Literary techniques: Repetition of key words/ metaphors

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